Count me in on the Cryptonomicon love. I've tried Quicksilver twice now, with no success, though.
Hallowed Hunt is good, quite different from the other two. I have to say I really like her idea for the gods and their portfolios.
I wanna hurt you, but I can't resist the sinister attraction of your cold and muscular body!
Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Volans - Jun 10, 2006 5:34:39 am PDT #636 of 28095
move out and draw fire
-t - Jun 10, 2006 7:34:36 am PDT #637 of 28095
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Hallowed Hunt is out in paperback, yay!
Yes! I just got my copy a few days ago. Such an interesting world. i wish it had a map included.
I really enjoyed the Baroque Cycle a lot, and it made me want to go back an re-read Cryptonomicon. It'll probably be a while though, those big loafs of book are hard to pick up again.
Polter-Cow - Jun 10, 2006 7:35:36 am PDT #638 of 28095
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I would just like to state that I am forty pages from the end of The Name of the Rose, which is farther than many people who have begun the book have gotten, I am told.
Strix - Jun 10, 2006 7:40:10 am PDT #639 of 28095
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I"ve read it twice, and both time were more stoppy-starty than usual for me. I like seeing how much Latin I can recall.
I tried to read Foucault's Pendulum many years ago, but gave it up. Course, this was in college, when my brilliant pre-reading strategy for any halfway philosopical text was to smoke some pot, read, and wait for flashes of enlightenment. Strangely enough, this strategy made me hungry rather than transcendent.
Polter-Cow - Jun 10, 2006 7:42:15 am PDT #640 of 28095
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I"ve read it twice, and both time were more stoppy-starty than usual for me.
It's taken me longer than I anticipated. All the papal politics both bore and confuse me.
I have Foucault's Pendulum ready to start next, but I'm afraid. It seems like it might be a wee bit more exciting, though.
Volans - Jun 10, 2006 7:51:02 am PDT #641 of 28095
move out and draw fire
I found Foucault's Pendulum to be rougher going than Name of the Rose, although I liked it immensely. I'm a medieval fangirl, particularly the high weirdness that was the Church, so I was comfortable in the Rose world, but modern Italian politics and Italians were terra incognita to me. I can understand the accusations of plagarism ( Rose ) also, as Pendulum and Eco's other writings (and I've read a LOT of his stuff) seem to all come from the same author, but Rose seems like a very different author.
I read Eliot's The Wasteland at the same time I read Foucault's Pendulum, and pot would've helped with both.
Strix - Jun 10, 2006 7:53:02 am PDT #642 of 28095
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
One of my MA's is in Medieval Lit, so I like the papal bull. Hee.
Volans - Jun 10, 2006 7:56:09 am PDT #643 of 28095
move out and draw fire
t groan
Hil R. - Jun 10, 2006 7:57:45 am PDT #644 of 28095
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I love Cryptonomicon -- I'm in the middle of rereading it right now -- but I haven't been able to get through Quicksilver.
Strix - Jun 10, 2006 7:59:30 am PDT #645 of 28095
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
(sorry, Raq. HAD to!)